GitHub Contracts in Glasgow

GitHub
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 81 77
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 24 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.01% 0.11% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.82% 0.32% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £388 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -16.28%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £475
90th Percentile £476 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +8.11%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 307 315 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 35.92% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 231 230
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -6.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £618 £676
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £23.28
25th Percentile £25.25 - £30.81
Median hourly rate £26.50 £15.42 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.85% -66.66% +110.23%
75th Percentile £27.75 £34.59 £59.20
90th Percentile - £46.08 £60.01
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Glasgow

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Glasgow

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) AWS
5 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (12.50%) Serverless
7 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) JIRA
2 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
4 4 (16.67%) Maven
5 3 (12.50%) GitLab
5 3 (12.50%) JUnit
5 3 (12.50%) Mockito
6 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
6 1 (4.17%) PyCharm
6 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
6 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (37.50%) Banking
2 7 (29.17%) Investment Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Data Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Build and Release Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Build Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Linux Build Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
4 4 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) Release Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) PySpark
2 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) Build Automation
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.83%) Data Transformation
5 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (16.67%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) Software Distribution
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.50%) Functional Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
8 2 (8.33%) Code Quality
8 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) C#
4 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle